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| The following table lists all persistent configuration parameter names in both their 'plain English' forms and the form in which they are stored within the configuration file. It shows the default value where one applies and briefly describes the effect the parameter has on the way Semplice works. | The following table lists all persistent configuration parameter names in both their 'plain English' forms and the form in which they are stored within the configuration file. It shows the default value where one applies and briefly describes the effect the parameter has on the way Semplice works. |
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| ^ Parameter Friendly Name ^ Parameter ^ Default Value ^ Legal Values ^ Program Effect ^ | ^ Parameter Friendly Name ^ Parameter ^ Default Value ^ Legal Values ^ Program Effect ^ |
| | Default music folder | MUSICDIR | blank or null | Any valid full path to a folder that contains somewhere within itself a set of FLACs you wish to check for integrity | The default path that is used when scanning for FLACs to add to the database or to read during integrity checks | | | Default music folder | MUSICDIR | blank or null | Any valid full path to a folder that contains somewhere within itself a set of FLACs you wish to check for integrity | The default path that is used when scanning for FLACs to add to the database or to read during integrity checks | |
| | Default music database name | DBNAME | blank or null | Any textual value, preferably without spaces | The default database to open when launching Niente | | | Default music database name | DBNAME | blank or null | Any textual value, preferably without spaces | The default database to open when launching Niente | |
| | Stop accented characters conversion | UTFCHARS | no | yes or no | If you type é or ü (or other accented characters), sometimes those may be converted to plain, unaccented equivalents such as e or u. Set this to 'yes' to stop that happening. It shouldn't happen anyway in most properly-configured Linux environments. | | | Stop accented characters conversion | UTFCHARS | no | yes or no | If you type é or ü (or other accented characters), sometimes those may be converted to plain, unaccented equivalents such as e or u. Set this to 'yes' to stop that happening. It shouldn't happen anyway in most properly-configured Linux environments. | |
| | Default degree of parallelism | PARALLELISM | 2 | Any numeric value, less than or equal to the number of logical CPUs on your system | High parallelism speeds up some file scanning operations, but increases CPU load on your PC. | | | Default degree of parallelism | PARALLELISM | 2 | Any numeric value, less than or equal to the number of logical CPUs on your system | High parallelism speeds up some file scanning operations, but increases CPU load on your PC. | |
| | Threshold (pixels) for small art | SMALLART | 300 | Any numeric value | Sets the minimum size embedded album artwork can be before Niente reports it as being too small | | | Threshold (pixels) for small art | SMALLART | 300 | Any numeric value | Sets the minimum size embedded album artwork can be before Niente reports it as being too small | |
| | Threshold (pixels) for large art | LARGEART | 1600 | Any numeric value | Sets the maximum size embedded album artwork can be before Niente reports it as being too big | | | Threshold (pixels) for large art | LARGEART | 1600 | Any numeric value | Sets the maximum size embedded album artwork can be before Niente reports it as being too big | |
| | Should album art be square | SQUAREART | yes | yes or no | If a piece of embedded album art is detected to has a different height and width, is that to be considered a reportable problem or not? | | | Should album art be square | SQUAREART | yes | yes or no | If a piece of embedded album art is detected to has a different height and width, is that to be considered a reportable problem or not? | |
| | Theshold (dB) for volume boosts | VOLUMETHRESHOLD | 2 (i.e., 2dB) | Any positive numeric value | Sets the minimum possible volume boost that should count as indicating a 'problem' on the Potential Volume Boosts report | | | Theshold (dB) for volume boosts | VOLUMETHRESHOLD | 2 (i.e., 2dB) | Any positive numeric value | Sets the minimum possible volume boost that should count as indicating a 'problem' on the Potential Volume Boosts report | |
| | Report on volume boosts | MAXV | yes | yes or no | Include or exclude the count of possible volume boosts from the Quick Aggregate Statistics report | | | Report on volume boosts | MAXV | yes | yes or no | Include or exclude the count of possible volume boosts from the Quick Aggregate Statistics report | |
| | Report filenames without bitdepth data | NAMEBITS | yes | yes or no | Include or exclude the count of filenames that don't appear to contain bitdepth data from the Quick Aggregate Statistics report | | | Report filenames without bitdepth data | NAMEBITS | yes | yes or no | Include or exclude the count of filenames that don't appear to contain bitdepth data from the Quick Aggregate Statistics report | |
| | Preferred browser | BROWSER | blank or null | The name of any installed browser program | Specifies which browser to use to view Niente's various reports. Blank or null means "use the system's default browser". If supplied, browser name values are not validated. | | | Preferred browser | BROWSER | blank or null | The name of any installed browser program | Specifies which browser to use to view Niente's various reports. Blank or null means "use the system's default browser". If supplied, browser name values are not validated. | |
| | | Use Kitty Graphics? | USEKITTY | no | yes or no | Specifies whether to display the program logo graphic using Kitty graphics ('yes') or sixel graphics ('no'), depending on the graphics capabilities of your terminal | |
| | | Size of the Program Logo | LOGOSIZE | 220 | Any positive numeric value | Determines how big the program logo (the little picture of Beethoven) appears on the right-hand of the screen. The supplied value is used to determine both height and width, so a value of 180 would turn into a square image of 180 x 180 pixels. | |
| | | Program Logo position (- or +) | LOGOPOS | 0 | Any numeric value, positive or negative | Shifts the program logo to the left (with negative numbers) or right (with positive ones), by as many characters as the number supplied. A value of -5 means 'move it five characters to the left'; a value of 8 means 'move it eight characters to the right'. Positive numbers should not use the '+' sign, but negative numbers will need to specify the '-' one. | |
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| Most of the parameters are, I think, self-explanatory and generally only ever change what is considered a 'problem' when running reports: what is considered a too-quiet recording, for example; what is considered too-large a piece of embedded album art and so on. | Most of the parameters are, I think, self-explanatory and generally only ever change what is considered a 'problem' when running reports: what is considered a too-quiet recording, for example; what is considered too-large a piece of embedded album art and so on. |